Unknown hallmark on silver bookmark

[howie]

Yet another bookmark I have with an unknown hallmark. It could be Canadian.

On the blade is written Victoria BC. At the top there is a crest made of enamel. The inscription, "Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense" means 'evil to him who evil thinks' in old Norman French. It is finished in a gold wash and is marked with a hallmark and the word Sterling.




Thanks

Howie

[kerangoumar]

please describe the mark; can't quite make it out. it might be a maple leaf with a capital sans-serif E? in which case it would belong to Ellis Bros. a Toronto company.

The top-drawer firm Ryrie Brothers amalgamated with Montreal jewellers Henry Birks & Son following the death of one of the three Ryrie brothers in 1917; in the 1930s Ellis Bros. joined the company to form Ryrie-Birks-Ellis. but they were known always just as Birks. Birks went through bankruptcy proceedings in the nineties and now are reconstituted as Henry Birks Co..

[howie]

Thank you kerangoumar. As far as I can tell, it is a maple leaf with the letter
E inside. It is very small and hard to see even with a loop.


Howie

[kerangoumar]

that is Ellis Bros. see my post above.

NOTE: as a general note to anyone reading this - there is some flexibility among the Ryrie/Ellis/Birks (mostly) flatware and their marks. a lot of the flatware patterns were carried over to the next iteration of the company and you might find a set of - let's say - georgian, or kings, half of which is marked birks and the other ellis, or ryrie(much less likely). well, the ellis flatware would have been carried over from their previous incarnation and sold by birks as their own - which, in a manner of speaking, it had become.


http://www.925-1000.com/americansilver_E.html